Mumbai: AirAsia India carried out its first flight on Thursday to demonstrate its handling of normal and non-normal events in the air to DGCA officials who came aboard as passengers. The airline is a three-way joint venture between Malaysia's Air Asia Bhd, Tata Sons and Telestra Tradeplace.
The 'proving flight' - as it is referred to - was delayed by 32 minutes at push-back because of congestion at Chennai airport. "The maiden AirAsia proving flight got airborne at 12.38 pm. All three sectors chosen for the proving flights - Chennai-Cochin, Cochin-Bangalore, and Bangalore-Chennai are those where Air Asia Malaysia operates and has ready ground support available. Another proving flight has been planned for Kolkata on Friday," a senior DGCA official said.
At each of the airports where the flight - an Airbus A320, registered as VT-AT --landed, AirAsia sought 25 minutes for turn-around, including aircraft checks, refueling and cleaning, the airline said in a time-table submitted to GVK, the airport operator in Bangalore and Mumbai.
02/04/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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The 'proving flight' - as it is referred to - was delayed by 32 minutes at push-back because of congestion at Chennai airport. "The maiden AirAsia proving flight got airborne at 12.38 pm. All three sectors chosen for the proving flights - Chennai-Cochin, Cochin-Bangalore, and Bangalore-Chennai are those where Air Asia Malaysia operates and has ready ground support available. Another proving flight has been planned for Kolkata on Friday," a senior DGCA official said.
At each of the airports where the flight - an Airbus A320, registered as VT-AT --landed, AirAsia sought 25 minutes for turn-around, including aircraft checks, refueling and cleaning, the airline said in a time-table submitted to GVK, the airport operator in Bangalore and Mumbai.
02/04/14 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
